FRONT AND CENTRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS - Key Persons
Cameron Read is the Director of Front and Centre and Inside 50 Player Management, where he combines his passion for leadership with a commitment to professional development. As a Leadership and Commercial Development Consultant and an accredited agent for AFLPA and Netball Australia, Cam specialises in empowering individuals and organisations to reach their fullest potential.
Dean's passion for people and safety is what drives his love and focus of keeping people safe in any environment.
No matter what the company or the need, Dean is ready to contribute proactive, diverse global security management achievements, aligned with refined political awareness, and expert security talents with knowledge and understanding of current security operations while collaborating with various key stakeholders to develop, implement and drive the security function across your environment.
His current successes include
Her side hustle, along with Grazina Fechner, is a podcast called Mind The Gap, where the mother and daughter team tackle generational differences!
When she's not busy podcasting, you'll find JL researching the latest TikTok trends and writing her favourite Front and Centre newsletter each week!
Kirby is a proud GORENG - NYAKI-NYAKI, WADJAK - BALARDOG woman, hailing from the South West of WA in a small town called Mt Barker.
A talented sportswoman, Kirby played elite level netball for the West Coast Fever, before trying her hand at AFL where she became a multiple All Australian. She was the first Aboriginal woman to hold a coaching position in the AFL, as a development coach with The Western Bulldogs AFLW program. She is now an AFLW Assistant Coach at Essendon Football Club.
In her home state of WA, Kirby also established the Kirby Bentley Cup https://www.kbcup.com.au a charity carnival aimed at improving inclusion and opportunity for Aboriginal girls, something that has been adopted and run by the WAFC. All programs accessed via Front and Centre, will see a donation towards the ongoing development of this program.
Professionally, Kirby has held many leadership roles across a diverse group of industries, along with her qualifications in construction (riggers, shot firers, doggers license) culminating recently in her role with the AFL as their Reconciliation Action Plan Manager at AFL House.
Kirby is a dynamic and talented presenter, both in key notes sharing her story, TV as an AFL commentator and in programs. Kirby is passionate about creating the conversation between what she describes as the "3 worlds" of Australia.. your world, my world, our world - helping organisations large and small with improving the understanding and opportunity for First Nations People in the Australian workforce.
Kirby has written and packaged a First nations Cultural Awareness online package, available for any organisation or person looking to bridge the gap and create open learning.
Kirby is also available to support organisations from a consulting perspective with the development of their own Reconciliation Action Plans, along with the education piece and facilitated supported if required.
Kirby can be contacted at kirby@frontandcentre.com.au
Mike has a deep passion and drive for helping people and teams to reach their full potential. He is high energy and believes that the best training and development should be outcome focused and fun! "When people have fun during training they are much more likely to engage and learn"
Having worked in the corporate healthcare space for over 20 years, Mike brings a wealth of experience spanning across a range of areas, including Sales Leadership, Learning and Development, Sales Force Effectiveness, Launch Excellence, Key Account Management and Cross Functional Team Optimisation. He has experience in building High Performing, award winning teams in senior leadership positions.
Mike employs a high optimism outcome philosophy, along with a strong analytical mindset. He can assist in understanding performance drivers and developing interventions to build capabilities to win in competitive environments. He truly believes that people are the difference, and that through investment in them with the right training and coaching, any team or individual can excel!
Mike's experience includes:
Capability analysis and intervention development
Sales training and optimisation
Developing high performance teams
Cross Functional Team optimisation
Leadership training and development
Coaching for success
Key Account Management training and optimisation
Sales Force Effectiveness, customer profiling, targeting and analytics
Launch strategy and training
Certified trainer for Team Management Systems, MBTI, Covey 7 Habits and DiSC
After Rob completed a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, he went on to Major in Broadcast Journalism at Charles Sturt University. This is where he reported on, presented and produced at local, national and international events; 2000 & 2008 Olympic Games, 2006 & 2012 Commonwealth Games, 2003 Rugby World Cup, lead reporter at 2007 Rugby World Cup (France), 2003 New Zealand All-Blacks feature assignment, 2007 San Francisco Red Bull air race, 2001 Volvo round the world yacht race, 2001-2004 Sydney to Hobart yacht race coverage.